This article describes the first release version of a new lexicostatistical database of Northern
Eurasia, which includes Europe as the most well-researched linguistic area. Unlike in other …

This paper extends the scope of application of the semantic map model to diachronic lexical
semantics. Combining a quantitative approach to large-scale synchronic polysemy data with …

Abstract In the Proto-Quechuan lexicon, many two-segment phonetic substrings recur in
semantically related roots, even though they are not independent morphemes. Such …

Previous studies have proposed that the lexicalization of perception verbs is constrained by
a biologically grounded hierarchy of the senses. Other research traditions emphasize …

Due to the increasing amount of large digitally available datasets, computational
approaches play an increasingly important role in historical linguistics, and many attempts …

While it has been known for a long time that human languages can change in various ways,
it was only in the early nineteenth century that scholars realized that certain aspects of …

It is a well known phenomenon in historical linguistics, that the meaning of a proto form is
different to the meaning of its descendants. This phenomenon of meaning change is often …

Over the last decade, a number of promising computational methods have been introduced
into historical linguistics. While those methods cleary bear great potential, they mostly are …

Lexicostatistics: Phylogenetic Inference• do not assume constant rate of lexical replacement•
find a tree with optimal structure and replacement rates at each branch (or even better …

This article describes the first release version of a new lexicostatistical database of Northern
Eurasia, which includes Europe as the most well-researched linguistic area. Unlike in other …